Cactaceae
Pitaya
Echinocereus enneacanthus
- Family
- Cactaceae
- Genus
- Echinocereus
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Common names
By language (4)
- Chinese
- 九刺虾, 龙妃, 玄武, 鹿角掌
- English
- Pitaya, Smallspine pitaya
- Hebrew
- פיטאיה
- Spanish
- Órgano-pequeño Alicoche Real
Synonyms
- Cereus dubius Engelm.
- Cereus enneacanthus Engelm.
- Cereus merkeri (Hildm.) A.Berger
- Echinocereus carnosus Rümpler
- Echinocereus dubius (Engelm.) Engelm. ex Rümpler
- Echinocereus enneacanthus f. brevispinus W.O.Moore
- Echinocereus enneacanthus f. intermedius W.O.Moore
- Echinocereus enneacanthus subsp. brevispinus (W.O.Moore) N.P.Taylor
- Echinocereus enneacanthus subsp. enneacanthus
- Echinocereus enneacanthus subsp. intermedius (W.O.Moore) Blum & Lange
- Echinocereus enneacanthus var. brevispinus (W.O.Moore) L.D.Benson
- Echinocereus enneacanthus var. carnosus (Rümpler) Quehl
- Echinocereus enneacanthus var. dubius (Engelm.) L.D.Benson
- Echinocereus enneacanthus var. enneacanthus
- Echinocereus jacobyi K.Schum.
- Echinocereus merkeri Hildm. ex K.Schum.
- Echinocereus sarissophorus Britton & Rose
- Echinocereus uehri Blanc ex F.Haage
- Echinocereus uspenskii F.Haage
Flowers
- In flower
- March to May (from 423 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: José Antonio Aranda Pineda, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Aubrey Cassady, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: dc lc, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Amante Darmanin from Malta, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.